Reticle Making Guide

Please leave comments about things that need adding or improvement, or if you would like to contribute. additionally, please try the tutorial from start to finish as if you had no knowledge from before and tell me how easily you feel you could complete this guide..

Thanks!

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(sorry for the tinyurl use, i'm just interested in tracking clicks, i promise its nothing bad)

Just a suggestion, I think that for your second page, there are a bunch of lines going outwards from the sentence describing what you need, to the image on the right hand side, I think it would be easier and much more organized if you would just use one image for the whole sentence, for ex: "Click the Background Layer in the layers toolbar, then (in the toolbox) go to the paint bucket icon" for that you would just put a small paint bucket tool image beside it, but overall its a great guide, thanks!

Just a suggestion, I think that for your second page, there are a bunch of lines going outwards from the sentence describing what you need, to the image on the right hand side, I think it would be easier and much more organized if you would just use one image for the whole sentence, for ex: "Click the Background Layer in the layers toolbar, then (in the toolbox) go to the paint bucket icon" for that you would just put a small paint bucket tool image beside it, but overall its a great guide, thanks!

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good thought, and i tried to do that later in the guide but i figured pointing out the location of something might not be a bad idea for the first use of a tool.. dunno though, maybe you're right.. thanks anyways! did you try the process? or just brief read through?

Since it isn't there yet, if people are looking for the rets on their computer, the path for the IA version was:C:>Users>[Username]>appdata>LocalLow>GarageGames>IAPlayer>products>www_instantaction_com>102>install>legions>gui>common>images>hud>reticles

As for where it will be on the new one, I don't know. I'm not making it.

Also, appdata is a hidden folder, make sure you can see those before trying to find this.

As an afterthought, you'll notice the HUD, compass, and weapons icons are here as well. Feel free to play with them too.

The paths for where reticles will be is going to change, don't think too much about that.

We'll provide you guys all that you need to make custom rets for your weapons [up to actual software to make them ]. We'd ideally like to see a more formal creation of client side content like reticles circulating in the community. Keep ideas like this flowing.

Cool, thanks for the support guys, i agree i should add something about better finding the reticles, although like Fahrenheit said, it will change so i wont worry about it for now.. and i know nothing about coding (just starting with python) but i'm happy to do photo editor related tutorials when the time comes!

Question: Where are the dividing lines in the images separating the different rets? Like, where in the image does the CG file change from the regular ret to the overheat ret? The reason I'm asking is because I want to know if the modded rets can be larger than the originals(which I think they can), and how much larger.

Looking back into some of my older files where I was trying to make rets with Greenfish instead of GIMP, I see that the CG image somehow got sectioned (each ret has a diff background color, no clue how this happened), and it looks like it is divided into equal space for each ret. i.e. the CG ret has dimensions of 512x128, so we divide the width by 4(4 columns) and leave the height. Each CG ret has a 128x128 square that it can fit in. So:
Chaingun: each is 128x128
Rocket: each is 128x128
Sniper (no zoom): each is 64x64
Sniper (full zoom): each is 256x256

I should think so. These dimensions are what the image itself is, not how it appears on your monitor. If that makes any sense.

Edit: Also, I lied was wrong above, the grenades are 64x128 each

Another Edit: Reading through your guide again, the third CG ret (red) is the hitmark ret and the SR rets are(I think): 4 is normal and the other 3 are the brief recharge between shots. But I don't usually snipe, so I'm not sure.